Effects of the number of presences on reliability and stability of MARS species distribution models: The importance of regional niche variation and ecological heterogeneity

Journal of Vegetation Science

Volumn 21, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 908-922

  Mateo, Rubén G ^a,c   Felicísimo, Ángel M ^b   Muñoz, Jesús ^a  

^a CSIC   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EXTREMADURA   (Spain)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CASTILLA LA MANCHA   (Spain)

Author keywords

AUC; Consensus model; MARS; Pearson correlation coefficient; Regional niche variation; Sample size

Indexed keywords

CORRELATION; DATA QUALITY; DATA SET; ECOLOGICAL MODELING; HERB; HETEROGENEITY; NICHE; NUMERICAL MODEL; POPULATION DISTRIBUTION; SPECIES OCCURRENCE;

ECUADOR; SPAIN;

EID: 77956318256     PISSN: 11009233     EISSN: 16541103     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1654-1103.2010.01198.x     Document Type: Article

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